{"id":154510,"date":"2026-02-04T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154510"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:58:05","slug":"colonialism-has-become-active-in-a-different-form-today-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/04\/colonialism-has-become-active-in-a-different-form-today-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonialism has become active in a different form today: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Feb. 4 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Colonialism has become active in a different form in Sri Lanka and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a ceremony held at Dharamakeerthirama in Polwatte, Kollupitiya to mark the 78th anniversary of independence, Premadasa said colonialism is now indirect unlike in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonialism has become active in a different form in Sri Lanka and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere. It is active in different sectors of the society such as the economy and culture. This colonialism has to be defeated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb. 4 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Colonialism has become active in a different form in Sri Lanka and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today. Speaking during a ceremony held at Dharamakeerthirama in Polwatte, Kollupitiya to mark the 78th anniversary of independence, Premadasa said colonialism is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154511,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154510\/revisions\/154511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}